WOBO Wins 2010 Advocacy Award from Alliance for Biking and Walking

Ryan Van Lenning Tue, 16 Mar at 5:55am
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It's great when a local organization gets national recognition for its hard work.  It's even more exciting when it's an organization doing hard work for causes you really believe in, like promoting a more sustainable Oakland.  Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO) was among 7 organizations that received this year's Advocacy Award from the Alliance for Biking and Walking.

From the Alliance for Biking and Walking website:

"Walk Oakland, Bike Oakland (WOBO) has been honored with the 2010 Winning Campaign Award for its Bike Broadway campaign. This award goes to an organization for a successful campaign, in the last year, which has had the biggest impact for bicycling and walking in their community. With no safe, convenient, quick way for bicyclists to get downtown to or from North Oakland, WOBO launched a campaign to get bike lanes on Broadway, Franklin and Webster Streets. The campaign goal was to create a contiguous north-south bike route from Downtown to Northern Oakland. WOBO’s efforts led to over 80 small business owners along the Broadway/ Franklin/ Webster corridor endorsing the campaign with letters of support, nearly 200 Oakland residents signing a petition of support for the campaign, and the collection of bike trip data on Broadway. WOBO is celebrating a victory with the planned installation of Bike lanes on Franklin and Webster streets this summer. The Bike Broadway campaign is shifting the way that biking and walking are considered in Oakland. Learn more about the Bikes on Broadway Campaign. Learn more about the Bikes on Broadway Campaign."

Also check out Laura McCamy's report on WOBO's spring plans, Oaklavia, and the new Executive Director.

About Ryan Van Lenning
Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and organizer focusing on issues of social justice and sustainability. He is also passionate about food justice/urban ag, anti-militarism, and building alternative economies in resilient cities. His work appears in Ecolocalizer, Truthout, Huffington Post, Terrain: Northern California’s Environmental Magazine, and Matador Change. Prior to becoming caught in the web of Bay Area ink-slinging and activism, he taught in the Humanities Department at a community college in Ohio, where he created courses in Environmental Ethics and World Religions: Peace and Violence. He is both a hyper-localist and a globalist, a home-body and travel-addict, and a city explorer and nature aficionado, just a few of the many paradoxes with which he is afflicted. Contact him at ryan@oaklandlocal.com, follow him on twitter @vanlenning, and find more at his blogs Pull the Root, Travelin' Bones, and Rumi and the Cholo.